"Kawabata Makoto (河端 一) is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band Acid Mothers Temple.

Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in the late 1970s. Some of these bands are: Baroque Bordello; Toho Sara; Erochika; Tsurubami; Musica Transonic; Mainliner; Mothers of Invasion; Nishinihon; Floating Flower."

"RG Rough is a British musician, currently living in Cologne (Germany). He has played in a number of Experimental / Rock bands in England and Germany and is now concentrating on solo recordings and experimentation as well as on a project with his friend John Precise, an artist living in London, with whom he has played and recorded on and off for a decade or so."